A longstanding research goal has been to understand the nature and role of copper–oxygen
intermediates within copper-containing enzymes and abiological catalysts. Synthetic …

The usually employed term of Holy Grail in the search of efficient methods that convert
readily available sources such as hydrocarbons into value added products is yet completely …

Terminal copper-nitrenoid complexes have inspired interest in their fundamental bonding
structures as well as their putative intermediacy in catalytic nitrene-transfer reactions. Here …

While β-diketiminate (BDI or 'nacnac') ligands have been widely adopted to stabilize a wide
range of metal ions in multiple oxidation states and coordination numbers, in several …

A sterically accessible tert-butyl-substituted dipyrrinato di-iron (II) complex [(t BuL) FeCl] 2
possessing two bridging chloride atoms was synthesized from the previously reported …

The easily electronically and sterically tunable β-diketiminates are widely used auxiliary
ligands for the creation of a wide range of metal complexes with various oxidation states in …

Using interwoven experimental and theoretical methods, detailed studies of several
structurally defined 1: 1 Cu–O2 complexes have provided important fundamental chemical …

To evaluate the fundamental process of O2 activation at a single copper site that occurs in
biological and catalytic systems, a detailed study of O2 binding to Cu (I) complexes of β …

The Cu (I) β-diketiminate [Me2NN] Cu (η2-ethylene)(2) catalyzes the cyclopropanation of
styrene with N2CPh2 to give 1, 1, 2-triphenylcyclopropane in 67% yield. Addition of N2CPh2 …

With an anisole-containing polypyridylamine potential tetradentate ligand OL, a μ-1, 2-
peroxo-dicopper (II) complex [{OLCuII} 2 (O22−)] 2+ forms from the reaction of the …